How to move a Hospital part 3

In the story we're creating about the move of the hospital between Sciennes and Little France (more here), we've got the old and ailing sandstone building as far as Cameron Toll. All the shops at the Mall try to give her a hand on her way towards the new site. Children in the hospital created some shops and told us how they and their contents could help. Cate put them together in a lovely picture and I wrote a poem with the children's ideas. Here they are:

The Hospital Parade

At Cameron Toll

the shops lend a hand:

a music shop provides

a jangly, loud band

to lead the Hospital parade

in a long caterpillar

with a precisely-penned map

towards Craigmillar.

The hospital gets repaired

with lego and loom-bands

the get well gift shop gives her

flowers and perfumed bags.

Out come the cupcakes

and curious cats

the bike shop sends a Giant

the pet shop, mice and rats

who with high-speed hamsters

on their exercise wheels

burrow under the hospital

and begin to spin a reel.

Powered by panting rodents              

the hospital and patrol

pull away from the shopping centre

now known as Cameron Roll.

If you're in the hospital you can now see all three parts of the journey so far on the wall between the main entrance and Ward Four. Here's Cate having a look at them.

Our next stop on the journey to Little France is Craigmillar Castle from where the new hospital site can be seen. And building has already started!

We'll be going to the Castle next week with some families from the hospital to Imagine how an ancient castle might advise a hospital who is about to transform into something very new. But we've already had a few ideas from seven-year-old Eva in Ward 3. We told her about all the unicorns on the crests in the castle, and then we showed her our own unicorn above the Hospital main entrance. She did us a lovely drawing of both and then got them talking to each other.